Akademos Curriculum Services

Akademos understands that faculty need unique solutions to meet the increasing demands for new
instructional models that improve student success. We've partnered with these best-in-class companies
to develop new resources for instructors. Please schedule a brief introductory call to learn more
about how all your students can have access to high quality learning products on the first day of class,
at an affordable price.

MindEdge

Interactive WebTexts for Business, Humanities, and Social Science.

For courses in Business, Humanities, and Social Science, MindEdge has created a webtext platform with
the
optimal amount of interactivity in the form of videos, games, case studies, writing prompts, and more.
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a central idea, MindEdge texts scaffold to ensure mastery of content

MindEdge offers content and technology that seamlessly integrate with all major LMS providers.
Students can better master content with MindEdge webtexts featuring narrative learning and
simulations. MindEdge works with your institution of higher learning to assemble creative and
flexible online learning solutions. Drawing upon an existing library of online content and
developing new learning materials where needed, MindEdge creates learning that addresses key
educational challenges.

Customizable OER courseware in Economics, History, and Science.

With offerings in Economics, History, and Science, panOpen’s platform takes OER courseware and makes it
highly customizable, allowing you to add, remove, or edit videos, articles, and even written text, all
inside the resource.

panOpen is a platform that promotes the widespread adoption of open educational resources (OER).
They deliver OER content to instructors and students in an interactive and fully customizable
environment..Open source educational materials are a truly disruptive force in the market for
educational content, and panOpen is dedicated to using these OER resources to improve educational
access and free faculty from the constraints of the commercial copyright structure.

Why it's effective

panOpen aligns the economic and operational interests of all stakeholders—faculty, administrators,
and students—to create a foundation for increasing student academic success. They provide the tools
and services that schools need to adopt OER resources tailored to their unique course needs, with
embedded questions and activities to keep students engaged in the content.

Course Offerings:

Biology

Business & Finance

Chemistry

Economics

History

Physics

Psychology

Social Sciences

Lrnr

A student-owned, personalized learning experience in physics, biology, and
social science.

Specializing in Physics, Biology, and Social Science, Lrnr’s learning platform is highly personalized
and adaptive, mapping at the granular level how well a student is performing, which areas need extra
attention, and providing the best way to go about mastering the material.

Why it's effective

As students interact with Lrnr, the platform gathers data on the students’ progress and continually
adapts to how they learn. These metrics enable the instructor to monitor each student’s progress
throughout the course and take action to assist them exactly when they need it. The Lrnr platform
measures the learning preferences of each individual student and creates a learning path that is
personalized across five crucial dimensions:

Pace of content presentation

Sequence of content

Level of difficulty

Form of content and choice of supplemental information

Remedial focus

Affordable, High Quality Content

Under the direction of the educator, Lrnr’s adaptive courseware is a turn-key solution delivering
highly personalized learning experiences using affordable OER content. Educators can use Lrnr to
customize an existing course or faculty and administrators may use Lrnr to create their own content.
Either way, the result is high quality solutions at incredibly affordable prices that result in
unprecedented success rates for students.

Course Offerings:

The courseware for Fulcrum Labs, focusing on Economics, Psychology, History, and Math, is loaded with
stunning video and animation, in-depth reading material, and a bevy of practice questions that
automatically adjust based on student performance for mastery-based learning.

Fulcrum Labs can help turn your students into learners, and your learners into masters of the
subject matter. The Fulcrum Labs personalized learning platform features premium content in a
competency-based system that leads to verifiable mastery. Their unique adaptive learning technology
adjusts, in real-time, to find the most optimal challenge for each student. It puts students in
control of their own learning experience, allowing them to watch, read, or practice whenever they
like, wherever they like.

Why it's effective

Fulcrum Labs easily integrates with any of your courses, as well as provide turnkey solutions in
specific subject areas. Their platform features a powerful dashboard that keeps students updated on
their own progress, leading to increased engagement and motivation. The instructor can track
progress, performance, subject mastery and study habits with over thirty unique learning analytics.
With their user-friendly dashboards, you can quickly evaluate course-specific data about each
individual student or the entire class.

Course Offerings:

American Government

College Algebra

College Success

Foundations of Reading & Writing

Intermediate Algebra

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Organizational Behavior

Psychology

Sociology

XYZ Textbooks

Math resources rich in videos, examples, and problem sets in algebra and
calculus.

XYZ Textbooks incorporates videos and relevant application of math into its courseware, resulting in a
hands-on approach to learning for everything from developmental math to advanced calculus.

xyz textbooks produces quality materials for mathematics instruction, including textbooks (both
print and electronic), videos, online homework, and worksheets. They offer all products at a
reasonable price, with professional, accessible service. Their goal is to give students the
opportunity to be successful in any college mathematics course from basic mathematics through
applied calculus. Study skills and success skills are integrated into all materials.

Why it's effective

The multiple esolutions provided by xyz textbooks make learning easy. xyz homework is an
easy-to-use, feature-packed online teaching tool that helps students learn online. They provide
instructors with the tools they need and deserve for students to succeed in math. MathTV is their
unparalleled video library offering more than 10,000 math video tutorials. QR codes and online books
add to their comprehensive platform.

Course Offerings:

Applied Calculus

College Algebra

College Mathematics

Intermediate Algebra

Precalculus

uCertify

IT courseware and labs aligned with industry certifications.

Winner of numerous CODiE awards, uCertify's catalog covers over 400 titles in IT courseware and labs,
Project Management, and other industry-aligned certification prep tools. Either instructor-led or
self-paced, uCertify's courseware drives job-ready skills and prepares students for critical industry
certifications.

uCertify is a powerful, interactive learning platform designed to make learning interesting and
effective for students of all ages. It has the intuitiveness and ease of a book powered by the
interactivity of a powerful e-learning platform.

Why it's effective

Learn, Practice, and Track is the uCertify philosophy. The learning features are provided by an
interactive textbook, study notes, flash cards, how-tos, exercises with hints, and more. Students
then take practice from hundreds of questions in learn, test, and review modes for optimal learning,
until they have mastered the concepts. The progress tracking and powerful analytics help a student
clearly identify their areas of weakness and strength, as well as their progress at any given point
in time.